There are plenty of very real things to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin for, not least of which is invading Ukraine. But lying (in this instance) may not be one of them. Putin lied when he said Russia was not going to invade Ukraine. But, wrong though the...
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Conserving the New Deal?
by Norman Singleton | May 8, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Jeffery Tyler Syck, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pikeville, is the latest conservative to urge the right to abandon—or at least modify—its commitment to free markets and constitutionally-limited government. In an article for The...
Politics is a Game, and the Players Want to Win
by Brad Pearce | May 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
The recent massive “foreign aid” bill which gave over $60 billion to Ukraine was a key victory for what we call the “Uniparty.” However, this was not just a cash transfer; more accurately, quite a lot of the money went as spoils to the American military contractors...
The Great Ukraine Robbery is Not Over Yet
by Ron Paul | May 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The ink was barely dry on President [Joe] Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media broke the news that this was not the parting shot in a failed U.S. policy. The elites have no intention of shutting...
How Israel Supported Hamas Against the PLO
by Jeremy R. Hammond | May 6, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel has been executing a devastating assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, blocking humanitarian aid, internally displacing 75% of Gaza’s population, systematically destroying civilian...
The Weekend at Bernie’s Election
by Kym Robinson | May 6, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
It’s time for the most important election again, a rematch. The American voter will decide who will sit at the head of the world’s biggest government. A pick between two old men, each of whom have had four years as president. Donald Trump, AKA "Orange Man," has his...
TGIF: Another Bogus Antisemitism Scare
by Sheldon Richman | May 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I've been watching and thinking about the nationwide campus antiwar demonstrations in support of the suffering Palestinians of Gaza, and the appalling reaction to and "coverage" of those events. Something important needs to be addressed. I won't be concerned here with...
We’ve Always Known Standing Armies Are a Threat to Liberty
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Thomas Gordon's A Discourse of Standing Armies; shewing the Folly, Uselessness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain, published in 1722, is a significant piece of literature in the canon of classical liberalism, critiquing the presence and role of standing...
Britain’s ID Card Proponents Expose Their Own Naivety
by Owen Ashworth | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
David Blunkett, the former United Kingdom Home Secretary, appeared on the Politics Live show this week and argued obstinately for the introduction of ID cards, saying “My guess is we will get ID cards under a Labour government." This is quite concerning since the next...
Troops on the Ground: Biden’s Plan for Ukraine
by Ted Snider | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite billions of dollars of military aid, equipment maintenance, training, intelligence, and planning from the United States and its partners in the political West, the war in Ukraine is going very badly. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,...
Conservatives Against ‘Hate Speech’
by Tom Woods | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
It's pretty sad watching conservatives argue like leftists, but it's all over the place now. Not so long ago they rightly ridiculed and dismissed the idea of "hate speech," but now that "anti-Semitism" is said to be the problem, all of a sudden the idea of hate speech...
The Creature From Palestine
by John Weeks | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The state is a monster that eats itself, along with individuals within its domain, its spheres of influence, and beyond. Citizens typically don’t perceive this due to the crafty rhetoric generated by the state’s intellectuals. Sometimes the rhetorical machinery breaks...
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Russia Pummels Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure as Kiev Seeks More Air Defenses
Russian missiles and drones targeted energy infrastructure in cities across Ukraine on Tuesday night. The attack was one of Moscow’s largest so far in the war and came as Kiev is desperately seeking new air defense systems. According to Ukrainian officials, Russia...
Netanyahu Implored Qataris to Continue Funding Hamas in 2018 Letter
As Israel’s war on Palestinians living in the besieged Gaza Strip continues escalating, a secret 2018 letter penned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the leadership in Doha exposes Tel Aviv’s diplomatic efforts to ensure tens of millions of dollars would reach...
Belarus Tests Readiness of Nuclear Forces After Russia Announced Drills
Belarus announced on Tuesday that its military was conducting a drill on the readiness of its forces to use tactical nuclear weapons, which Russia recently deployed to the country.
Israel Captures Rafah Border Crossing, Cutting Off Aid
The Israeli military announced on Tuesday that its ground forces captured the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing, cutting off a vital aid route as Palestinians are facing starvation.
Ukraine Seeks Reaper Drones to Aid Deep Strikes on Russian Forces
As Ukraine steps up its use of long-range munitions provided by Washington, it is also seeking to obtain the US-made MQ-9 Reaper drone to help locate targets well behind the frontlines. The aircraft quickly moved to the top of Kiev's weapons wishlist after the White...
US Struggles to Unite Allies on Plan to Seize Russian Assets
The White House is struggling to persuade even its closest allies to support a plan to seize Russian assets. Members of NATO hold hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen Russian funds, with the Biden administration arguing they should be sold off to arm or rebuild...
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Lying Politicians Gonna Lyingly Politick
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day: We remember what happened then [in Nazi Germany], and today, we are witnessing American universities quickly become hostile places for Jewish students and faculty. The very campuses which were once the...
The Purpose of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
The point of the House-passed (and misnamed) Antisemitism Awareness Act is not to empower the Education Department to sue and defund colleges under civil rights law. It is to make lawsuits unnecessary by chilling expression.
The Prussian Culture of Disobedience
"The German and Prussian officer corps are the officer corps with the greatest culture of disobedience–with maybe the exception of the French. The stories and events that kept alive the virtue requiring an officer–even in war–to disobey an order “when justified by...
Zionism versus Judaism
From the start, political Zionists identified their program with Judaism the religion (despite their secularism, even atheism). Also from the start, Jews -- including the most tradition-bound Jews -- vigorously disavowed that identification. They were shamed as...
Sen. Mitt Romney Admits TikTok Censorship is All About Protecting Israel
Of course it is. No one hates free speech more than Zionists. You know, because accurate descriptions of Israel make them look bad.
At First I Hated Rian Johnson
For making the very worst Star Wars movie, Episode 8, and ruining Luke Skywalker. But now I realize that he was just making a film about how disappointing it was to meet Mark Hamill.